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Practical leadership development principles for a COVID-19 world

CLO Magazine

However, today’s leadership development programs were failing before this crisis, and now tolerating the old approach to leadership development — sitting in a classroom in an effort to learn leadership theory — is totally ineffective. And simply moving to an online learning course to learn theory isn’t any better. Leadership is a verb.

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PLEs, MOOCs and connectivism

Learning with e's

Standardised tests are administered by schools who ignore the fact that all students are different, and bells continually punctuate the timetable, dividing the school day up into an unconnected parade of subjects, each delivered in content heavy lessons. One size never did fit everyone.

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Don't miss the train!

Learning with e's

I'm just about to hop on a train and make my way up to Milton Keynes for the first time, where tomorrow I'm an external examiner for one of the Open University 's PhD candidates. Before the train arrives, there's just enough time to write a brief review in an extraordinary book that has landed on my desk this week. becomes Web 3.0.

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What Can You Expect in 2013?

CLO Magazine

According to a December 2011 issue of Business Insider, the mobile apps analytics firm Distimo said many popular apps were games such as Angry Birds, social networking such as Facebook, Skype and Twitter, and other content such as Google Maps and iBooks. These apps focus on specific content such as playing a game or buying a book.

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Top 60 eLearning Posts for October 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

The art of Twitter , October 11, 2010 Learning how to use Twitter as a tool to develop your personal learning network is not always simple, and as with any other social networking tools, there is an unwritten protocol. Network Learning. Open up the Navigation. Here’s some of what I pulled out. Sumeet Moghe, 2009.

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Semantic technologies and learning

Learning with e's

collaborative tagging, social networking, mash-ups, and wikis), lightweight representation of semantics and metadata is used in the form of folksonomies, user comments, and ratings. Semantic social networking in multimedia-based learning environments. Due to the intensive use of Web 2.0 techniques (e.g.

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Step Away into a new learning experience event like no other

NuggetHead

What if we mashed design thinking, visual thinking, and game design into one multi-day event? Well, like any great experience it is often difficult to sum it up in a single explanation. “We Learn more about Step Away by visiting stepaway.design and subscribe to stay up to date. A couple of years ago I had an idea.

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